Want to be hotter? Try this one weird Republican trick
by Arwa Mahdawi
Forget expensive moisturizers or designer clothes. Ladies, if you want a quick and easy glow-up, you may want to try Republicanism. This one weird trick of voting against your own reproductive rights will instantly make you 10 times hotter. That’s not my personal sales pitch, I should note. But it’s increasingly how conservatism is being marketed to young women. As is painfully clear almost one year into Donald Trump 2.0, Maga authoritarianism doesn’t have any meaningful selling points for most normal people. It’s not making life cheaper. It’s not making your job more secure. It’s not making the world safer or more stable. It’s doing quite the opposite. And so, devoid, of any real substance – other than the knowledge that the people you hate are being hurt – conservatism is being packaged as an aspirational lifestyle.
See, for example, a recent discussion about the actor Sydney Sweeney on Fox News. Trump voters are obsessed with Sweeney, whom they consider one of them. Unfortunately for the actor, they’re not obsessed enough to pay good money to support her movies – her recent project Christy had a historically bad opening weekend – but they sure do love talking about her various assets. This week, the folks at Fox were discussing Sweeney’s appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where the actor’s outfit and new bob, numerous people remarked, made her look just like a Fox News anchor.
“It is true,” replied Watters. “So when you register Republican, you just get hotter.” I’m not sure “hotter” is the right word, but women (and a significant number of men) who register Republican certainly do gravitate towards a certain look. Politics have always affected sartorial choices to some degree, but it’s remarkable how everyone in Trump’s orbit now seems to have exactly the same face. You know what I mean: puffy lips, lots of filler, frozen forehead. It’s become such a marker of Maga power that plastic surgeons in Washington DC have seen a surge in requests for Mar-a-Lago face.
“The media says she got a ‘Mar-a-Lago makeover’ and it’s driving liberals loco,” the Fox News host Jesse Watters said in response to this, on his eponymous primetime show. The Fox Business host Katrina Campins concurred, telling Watters: “[Sweeney’s] getting hotter, and they’re so jealous, right? … So my advice to all the ladies, our side is better, and you get hotter, right? All Republican women are hot! Tell me that’s not true.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/06/mar-a-lago-face-sydney-sweeney-republicans
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